BEN BERNANKE While Ben Bernanke, the Chief of the Federal Reserve makes statements about the unemployment rate remaining high in the U.S. for the foreseeable future, GM announces the opening of new factories in Mexico. The Mexican workers will receive $26.00 a DAY – this is the HOURLY RATE in the U.S. Bloomberg — Mexico’s [...]
By Caroline Baum U.S. presidents are always yammering about the need to “invest in education” to prepare our children to compete in the 21st century. Barack Obama succumbed to the temptation last week in front of a huge, attentive audience for his State of the Union address. The president told the American people every child [...]
The easiest way for the rich to become richer is to make the poor their slaves. Throughout history, this has been the only tried and tested method of increasing wealth.
NEW BORN BABY IN THE USA, SHOULD CHURCHES PAY FOR ABORTION? by Sanford Pinna, M.D. Copyright 2012 This is an article about encroaching Fascism. Many churches in the world operate hospitals. All religious institutions believe that God has given them a duty for providing mankind with a beautiful paradise called Earth. The churches of the [...]
IMF Seeks $500B Boost to Lending Resources By Simon Kennedy, from Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund is proposing to raise its lending capacity by $500 billion to insulate the global economy against any worsening of Europe’s debt crisis, according to a person familiar with the talks. The Washington-based lender currently has about $385 billion available [...]
Red-Wine Researcher Charged With ‘Photoshop’ Fraud By Robert Lowes, from Medscape Medical News A University of Connecticut researcher known for touting the health benefits of red wine is guilty of 145 counts of fabricating and falsifying data with image-editing software, according to a 3-year university investigation made public Wednesday. The researcher, Deepak K. Das, PhD, [...]
Why Sports (Seem to) Matter More Than Healthcare By Greg Hood, MD, Internal Medicine, from Medscape It’s snowing today. It’s early in flu season. Soon ice will be covering sidewalks resulting in people suffering life changing hip fractures. Medicare payments and the solvency of healthcare in America remain very much in limbo. Naturally, the number [...]
Communication is a complex process that the human brain often finds difficult to achieve with any degree of perfection. As with all human activities simplicity is preferred to complexity since complexity requires more energy expenditure. All living things want to expend the least energy to accomplish a goal. How often have we heard: “I don’t [...]
